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[electrosoft]

3 hours ago, tps3443 said:

IT WAS THE CABLE!! I think my 5090 did it in lol. Swapped the 12vhpwr. No crashing!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

 

3 hours ago, tps3443 said:

 
 

Yes! Very very hard to buy a 5090. That guilt is STRONG after buying one too. Today’s prices are nuts. 5080 is a value and gets the job done!! Gone are the days of high end affordable GPU’s. It’s a rich man’s club now. 
 

EDIT: 

 

So happy I found the issue! When that 2nd brand new Zotac RTX 5080 locked my PC up, I was concerned and relieved at the same time. Relieved that the RTX 5080 was not defective. But also worried what the issue could be. 
 

The bad cable was ran daily on a shunt modded 5090FE, so it must have took the cable out I guess. What’s weird though, is I had no issues running the 5090FE up until the day I pulled it from the system. So I think maybe it sitting it just degraded? It’s so weird. 
 

I’m going to do some testing now and see which is the best GPU! I would prefer a low voltage low power queen if I had to pick. I don’t know what all the fuss or hate about Zotac is either. Both of these cards are built incredibly well. I had a Gigabyte 4090 Gaming OC, and that thing felt like a Dollar General toy lol. 😂 these cards feel nice and look very high quality.

 

Best possible outcome. Feels like when my EVGA 1600w P2 started to falter a few months ago and I couldn't lock down where the failures or sporadic errors were coming from and had to start from the ground up to isolate the PSU.

 

The cables really are the weakest link this time around. I know with my 4090 and 5090 I kept the pigtail plugged in at all times even when swapping out. Many times for motherboard upgrades I would remove the GPU from the slot and lay it still connected on the lower part of the case.

 

Could have been just the absolute pounding you gave that cable and the limited times you have to plug and unplug it before it starts to degrade.....which is insane to think on a cable meant to handle 600w+.....

 

Gigabyte Gaming OC cards in general are not built that great. Master and Elite cards get the love. 

 

Glad you're back up and running! Let us know which one is the superior GPU. I'm curious to see vmax, best OC, best UV and overall temps head to head.

 

2 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

This become a problem because you had good contact in first place. Once removed and the connection will break and you get a problem. Cables have now become a consumable items. I mean the tiny trash called 12V-2x6. Those cannot be reused as the good old 8-pin cables. 

 

Benching the old gpu's ain't very fun anymore because you need to take out and in your new and shiny GPU if you want the newest in you rig after bench sessions. The modern cables ain't up to task. This tiny trash ruined my hobby.  

 

 

The only real way to do it now is to use the dreaded tentacle for a few reasons to bench multiple cards:

 

#1. You can keep the 12vfail connector connected at all times

#2. It makes it easy to bench and test traditional 8-pin PCIE GPUs since you have 4x 8-pin leads at your disposal.

 

 

 

 

[tps3443]

Would be awesome if running two RTX 5080’s was useful for something. 😂 They really match so perfectly together!! Maybe there is a benefit? Or a waste. 

[Mr. Fox]

40 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Would be awesome if running two RTX 5080’s was useful for something. 😂 They really match so perfectly together!! Maybe there is a benefit? Or a waste. 

For gaming very little benefit since there is no SLI hardware support and almost zero SLI support in terms of game development. You could use one for render and one for compute, and you could use Lossless Scaling for gaming. That would be a very expensive second GPU for that though. What GPU does your son have? If he has anything less than a 4090 it would be a nice upgrade for him. If you wanted to experiment with Lossless Scaling, you could use his GPU for that as a second GPU in your system.

 

All of the above aside, having two matching 5080 Solid GPUs installed in your system would look pretty wicked.

 

If you end up returning the new one you will have an "original owner" invoice with your name on it to register for warranty with Zotac. 

 

You could buy this one 5090 for roughly the cost of 4.5 5080s if you wanted to do something extra-stupid and frivolous with your money. https://www.overclock.net/threads/msi-rtx-5090-lightning-z-65-of-1300-custom-loop-compatible.1819519/?post_id=29587541#post-29587541